There really is only one ending to any story. Human life ends in death. Until then, it keeps going and gets complicated and there's loss. Everything involves loss; every relationship ends in one way or another. - Charlie Kaufman

It's kind of fun to do the impossible. - Walt Disney Company

Everything I know, I know because of love. - Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. - William Faulkner

Annabeth pressed her lips to Percy’s ear. “I love you.”She wasn’t sure he could hear her—but if they died, she wanted those to be her last words. - Rick Riordan, The House of Hades

True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys. - Yukio Mishima

If I behave as though this is a completely normal situation, then maybe it will be ... - Sophie Kinsella, Shopaholic Takes Manhattan

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not - a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

You better start swimming, or you'll sink like a stone. Because the Time's they are a-changing. - Bob Dylan

I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn't that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she was my oldest, dearest friend. The kind of person you can tell anything to, no matter how bad, and they'll still love you, because they know you. I wanted to go with her. I wanted her to notice me. And then she stopped walking. Under the moon, she stopped. And looked at us. She looked at me. Maybe she was trying to tell me something; I don't know. She probably didn't even know I was there. But I'll always love her. All my life. - Neil Gaiman, Worlds' End

It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true. - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

I think joy and sweetness and affection are a spiritual path. We're here to know God, to love and serve God, and to be blown away by the beauty and miracle of nature. You just have to get rid of so much baggage to be light enough to dance, to sing, to play. You don't have time to carry grudges; you don't have time to cling to the need to be right. - Anne Lamott

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. - Mark Twain

A daydreamer is prepared for most things. - Joyce Carol Oates

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. - George Bernard Shaw

I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof. - Rodney Dangerfield

If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one's self is like the heat in an oven. It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world. - Alan Bradley, The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag

Don't take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it. - Colleen Hoover, Slammed

We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them. - Anaïs Nin

...Despite the mayhem that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go. - John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas